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Company of Kansas City, Missouri ; also sections of 12, 15, 18, 21, 24 and 

 oO-ineh corrugated culverts, furnished hy the ]\Ioberly Corrugated Cul- 

 \ert Company. This car carried the small hand tools. 



Two flat cars contained the road l)uilding machinery of Smith & 

 Sons' Manufacturing Company of Kansas City, Missouri. This machin- 

 ery consisted of 3 wheel scrapers, 2 drag scrapers, 1 buck scraper, 1 four- 

 ton horse roller, 1 road plow, 3 rooter plows, 1 big and 1 little road 

 grader, 1 road drag and all the double trees, neck yokes and other neces- 

 sary attachments. 



The other car carried a 15-horse power traction engine and a 10-ton 

 steam road roller of the J. I. Case Threshing INlachine Company. Each 

 of these concerns sent an expert operator. Curtis Hill and Edward 



Beginning of drag demonstration on old gravel road at Cape Girardeau. 



Sheppard of the State Highway Department, C. E. Maggard of the 

 Merilet Culvert Core Company, T. S. McNaul of the ]\Ioberly Corrugated 

 Culvert Company, L. W. Long and J. A. Williams of Smith & Sons, and 

 J. E. Lievsay and P. R. Osborn of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine 

 Company comprised the working force. 



All stops were from two to four days, including the unloading of 

 machinery and time spent in actual work. "Good roads" lectures were 

 giA^en in the evenings. The section of road to be made in each locality 

 had been previously selected by the local officials, and needless to say, 

 they were representatively bad and difficult in every case. Movement 

 from place to place was made at night, and with fair weather favoring us, 

 w^e were enabled to adhere strictly to the schedule. 



